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No race this week, but plenty of news. Greeny and Cheese cover the FIA’s announcement that V8 engines return to Formula 1 in 2030, and the 10-year deal that brings F1 back to Africa for the first time since 1993, with a new track in Rwanda. They also dig into Haas signing 21-year-old Ferrari Academy driver Rafael Camara for 2027, and why Jack Doohan’s time ran short.

Kimi Antonelli could wrap up the world championship at the U.S. Grand Prix, and Ferrari is bringing an upgrade to Austin (Greeny and Cheese have thoughts).

In Quizmaster’s Cockpit, Cheese gets three questions: his preseason Greenybucks championship picks, the episode that started the Slap Yourself in the Face award, and which four countries have never downloaded the show. Monaco is one of them.

Next week the show returns after the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, so expect a late one Sunday night.

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Max Verstappen won the Sprint on Saturday, took pole a few hours later, and led the Singapore Grand Prix from lights to flag. His 73rd career win, his 250th Grand Prix start, and the first time he has ever won at Marina Bay. Charles Leclerc finished second, Kimi Antonelli third. But the argument of the episode is about George Russell. He crashed out of the Sprint lead on lap one, took an engine penalty, started nineteenth and finished ninth — and Greeny and Cheese ask whether a season that began with him as the odds-on title favorite has broken him for good. Also: Lewis Hamilton stayed out on old softs through a virtual safety car, dropped from third to sixth, and took the blame on the radio — and why he no longer trusts the Ferrari pit wall. McLaren leave points on the board again and are now 105 behind Ferrari. The FIA admit a human error that left cars running in different power modes during Sprint qualifying. The Quizmaster's Cockpit goes three for three on Marina Bay history. And a Greenybucks ledger where both hosts lost money and the gap still closed. Plus Max on the paddock being more relaxed without Christian Horner, eleven days before Horner's book lands. Next week: an In The News special. Then Austin, and the United States Grand Prix on October 25. In The Paddock is published within hours of almost every Grand Prix podium.

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Formula One held the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, delayed it an hour and forty minutes for rain, and then watched half the grid crawl down the main straight at walking pace because a software bug took the power away. Lewis Hamilton called it a Lego race. Max Verstappen won it — his first victory in eleven months and the 72nd of his career — after losing the lead at Turn 1 and taking it back at the lap-nine restart. Kimi Antonelli finished second and extended his championship lead to 84 points, because George Russell's power unit failed while he was running third with five laps remaining. Lewis Hamilton started on slicks in the wet, fell to the back, and climbed all the way to the podium. Greeny and Cheese cover the FIA's software fix, the Quizmaster's Cockpit on Sepang and the Malaysian Grand Prix, Winners and Losers, the Slap of the Week, and a Greenybucks ledger that changed hands for the second week running. In The News is all Christian Horner: the tell-all memoir "Drive," what he writes about Adrian Newey and Helmut Marko, and the Ferrari job he floated and then denied to Martin Brundle. Next up: Singapore, Sunday October 11, and the first Sprint ever held at Marina Bay. In The Paddock is published within hours of almost every Grand Prix podium.

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